Experimental Philosophy

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Experimental Philosophy

Experimental Philosophy

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Experimental philosophy: An interdisciplinary field that uses the collection of empirical data to shed light on philosophical issues.

Katılım Mart 2009
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@MeganTStevenson Clearly, we are learning something of profound theoretical importance from the fact that RCTs show so little effect of most interventions It’s *so* strange that we don’t see more work exploring different theories designed to explain why this happens!
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Megan Stevenson
Megan Stevenson@MeganTStevenson·
But seriously, have we learned anything important about theory via RCT’s in the last 20 years? Beyond the fact that most things evaluated don’t really work? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Jason Abaluck@Jabaluck

This is not an argument against RCTs. It's an argument against RCTs that are not testing any relevant theory. Of course we want to know why South Korea got rich and Bolivia did not, but we won't figure it out with cross-country regressions or arm-chair guesswork either.

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Dr Christian Jarrett 🇺🇦
Dr Christian Jarrett 🇺🇦@Psych_Writer·
Why it’s so hard to agree on what counts as true psyche.co/ideas/why-its-… New research has mapped people’s contrasting conceptions of the truth. No wonder so many arguments feel irresolvable
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Joanna Demaree-Cotton
Joanna Demaree-Cotton@Jo_DC·
Introducing - Where should I publish my x-phi? A new community resource for experimental philosophers, integrating info and metrics for choosing x-phi friendly journals. We'd love more community input and feedback. Check it out! xphi.net/2026/04/22/whe…
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The result is an equilibrium. The trust you build in the discipline through your careful research is actually part of what creates the incentive to make wild claims with no good evidence, which in turn creates decreased trust
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But then, once there is a lot of trust in the discipline, people will have an incentive to take advantage of that trust: They will capitalize on it to advance other agendas that don’t have to with finding the correct answer… which then leads to decreased trust
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New theory of trust in institutions from Sanga and Givati The theory suggests a new way to understand the ups and downs we see in trust in academic disciplines (how much people trust psychology, philosophy, etc.) Thread papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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Eugen Fischer
Eugen Fischer@eugen_fischer·
People's philosophical intuitions often clash. Is this due to conflicts between underlying beliefs? Three studies validate a new belief inventory and show laypeople collectively and individually hold conflicting beliefs about vision: link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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How do people decide whether it’s wrong to harm a pig? A chimp? A baby? In the West, these judgments are based more on *experience* (being able to feel) than on *agency* (being able to think and act) Study from @bxjaeger finds that same pattern across other cultures
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Why we love sad music? You probably don’t want a stranger telling you how lonely they are... so why do you want a stranger *singing* about how lonely they are? Cognitive scientist/opera singer Tara Venkatesan on experimental results about this puzzle psyche.co/ideas/if-we-av…
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@omarvalenciag @TadegQuillien This new paper now shows that under certain circumstances, those theories predict that people will see the cause as a combination of two things It then reports a series of experimental studies to test that prediction
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@omarvalenciag @TadegQuillien These theories predict that people will pick out the match as the cause and not the oxygen Technical work in this field has been improving, and we are getting better at predicting which thing will be seen as the cause
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The core idea: Start with a theory about why people usually select just one cause (e.g., why people say that the fire was caused by the match and not by the oxygen) In certain cases, that very theory predicts that people will say that the cause is more than one thing
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@lucas_non_ev This is a very fair and reasonable position on your part, but I feel like everything is a little bit upside down in the existing debate on this issue. The empirical side is so often presented as a rebellion. But it is *not* a rebellion! It is the status quo
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